People often ask me some variant of this question: “What’s a startup out there that will be a great investment hit but no one really thinks of that way yet?” There are many possible answers, but I’ll focus this week’s column on one: Disqus. Now, there are many smart folks who believe online comments are either dead or worthless, and they have some valid points. Some believe online… → Read More
YouTube’s comment section isn’t exactly known for being a hotbed of in-depth intellectual conversations. One of the reasons for this, some would argue, is the fact that YouTube still lets people post comments using handles like ‘cutepuppies99′ without having to reveal your real identity. Starting today, however, you will have the option to use your Google-wide Google+-based identity that will show… → Read More
One of the unending debates in blogging circles is about the value of comments. How do you encourage the best comments and discourage the anonymous trolls? Do you even need comments? Or do you enforce civility by requiring real names, through the use of Facebook comments (which is what we currently use on TechCrunch) at the expense of discouraging conversation?
But there is a middle ground… → Read More
TV is just not the same without Twitter and Facebook chatter. Tonight’s prequel movie Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe comes with social chatter about the show on your laptop courtesy of Echo, the realtime commenting system. The USA Network launched this companion site, which pulls in comments, Tweets, Facebook status updates and Fan Page comments, as well as YouTube video and Twitpic photos… → Read More
It’s been a month since we introduced Facebook Comments round these parts, time enough to have given it some serious consideration. And my conclusions are as follows:
…are you kidding me? This is the best a $75 billion company could come up with? Isn’t Facebook supposed to be the new home of software’s best and brightest? Is this some kind of elaborate practical joke?
The whole point of a… → Read More
I knew we’d probably get plenty of comments on the iPad Review and I honestly enjoy the back and forth. But there’s one type of comment we always see and it basically says “Why is this on my browser?” Clearly, commenter Krugeri knows the answer: our commenters have been kidnapped by an international group of terrorists and are being forced to read reviews against their will. → Read More
Are you in the Harrisburg area? Are you able to type in English? Well some weird company wants you to shill for them, offering $50 for your trouble. Here’s the post: We are an internet marketing company that increases market awareness for our clients and there is a large project with a March 29th deadline, requiring 50 comments for each brand. All you need is an internet connection and… → Read More
One of the great things about Android Market is that you can see what everyone has to say about the applications they’ve downloaded. Very useful in figuring out if you should really download that app called “Alien Blood Bath” or just avoid it all together. The system, however, is slightly flawed. It appears that no one is really moderating these comments, and they usually end up… → Read More
From the briny deep comes this mad-eyed comment on a post about game companies: Hi. I regularly scan this forum. This is the head together unequivocal to ask a query. How multitudinous in this forum are references Nautical port behind, disingenuous users? Can I depute all the facts that there is? Can you, sir? Can you? → Read More
ML Smith of some weird blogs commented on our pithy commentary between Audrina and Audrina’s co-worker on The Hills describing the Large Hadron Collider. Instead of a reasoned debate about the relative merits of Audrina vs. Heidi we were privy to long-winded commentary on Nagasaki and the potential for a second “Big Bang.” A short snippet: CLIC ML Smith Perhaps I have become… → Read More
In response to our post on Tweeter shutting down, a brave Tweeter employee dropped us a line: I’m a Tweeter Employee, and let me tell you firsthand, our management is 100% responsible for our failure. They sit in the Glass Palace up in Canton MA, where it seems every two weeks they change the companies direction. Last week we were supposed to be Crestron Dealers who gave $60K estimates without… → Read More
I enjoy any well-articulated, insightful, and/or hilarious comments left here on CrunchGear very much but I really, really get a kick out of the crazy-ass, aggressive, maniacal comments left on YouTube videos. Hit the jump to read some comments left about the probably-fake MacBook video that surfaced earlier this morning. Just a warning that there’s some harsh language… → Read More
Following the footsteps of our overlord and master, we’ve added Seesmic video comments to CrucnhGear. Hopefully this won’t tear the proverbial hind-end out of our site and will be a great way to show off gadgets you might have or discuss problems and issues in an interesting way. I also expect lots of T&A and some 2geeks1 biggulp action on here, as well. → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. Comment on Don’t shoot the messenger: Microsoft internal promo video about Windows Vista is hard to watch by Vero Pepperrell Wow. Dread to think what the conversation was like in the boardroom. “Right guys, we need to make a VIRAL VIDEO. The… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. jaydobro on AT&T begins rolling out Wi-Fi service in San Antonio Starbucks is there a corporation you do like? or is it just an overall hatred of corporations? drdrew on Tax Woes Rant Post v1.0 Feel free to try to make me cry. you suck. → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. Dweeberkitty on The Unreasonable Stance: All About Linux 2008 edition: Linux sucks Wow, that was the most ridiculous article I’ve read in a LONG time. It was kind of funny actually. The author was making such a fool of himself. Travis on All… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. jj550 on Two new speakerdocks from iHome look very nice “These would look great in the dorm room of my future trophy wife.” Matt Hickey is the awesome. Jarett on Higher battery prices caused by fire at LG plant So now they explode before you… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. thebonafortuna on Windows Mobile 6.1 to be released on the first day of CTIA I love the little image on the right of the battery icon — it perfectly exemplifies the “WTF” feeling I get when using Windows Mobile devices. Mark on Oh, yes… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. J Rob on Verizon Wireless claims big chunk of 700MHz spectrum, AT&T grabs a small bite Finally, the winner of the 700 MHz spectrum auction will free us from the shackles of oppression wrought by the current wireless corporate . . . . . . → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. Johnal on Super-efficient micro-microchip could run on body heat and motion So machines are running off of human body heat… Matrix anyone? Morpheus: “The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120 V battery and over 25,000 btu’s… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. ryan on CG and Proporta’s Hot or Not Entrants I knew canines (dogs with glowing eyes rule) read CG, but girls do too? Piers on Ron Jeremy lashes out at streaming porn sites He’s currently doing a tour of student unions over here in the… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. Marcus on CrunchDeals: Nokia’s N810 gets $90 price drop Here’s how to get an even BETTER price, courtesy of Internet Tablet Talk.com. Use Nokia promo code SCENEZINE at the NokiaUSA store and receive an additional 15% off, making the… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. nofluke69 on First the iPhone gets Spore, now it gets Legos. What’s left? How about 3G? John Eddy on Mario Wii casemod: so subtle! so elegant! And I look and see a goatse. Tim B. on Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-in-One Printer Review This is… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. who cares on Beware: The Verizon Voyager will apparently kill the iPhone I’m an English teacher, and now I know why all my kids can’t string a complete sentence together. I can’t even read some of the comments. I just want to know if there… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. Jeremy Jones on Welcome to the new, improved CrouchGear + contest crouchgear.com hasn’t been available since an hour after the post. I bought it and forwarded the traffic to this post. It didn’t look like crunch gear was going to buy it. → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. Johnal on Verizon charging for data over 5GB on “unlimited” plan I wish I had Verizon just so I could cancel my account. Skip on Behind the original HBO movie intro Heh. I remember seeing this “making of” short on HBO when I was… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. Fred on Lost in-game video: Not Penny’s game! I made up a new drinking game in which I chug every time Lost makes me say “WTF, JJ Abrams?” I think I may have blacked out at some point last night. Marc M. on Dragon Ball MMO: Strike when… → Read More
Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. Neil on Han Solo Carbonite Desk: Exactly what it sounds like, as cool as it sounds I would imagine Jabba didn’t use Han in Carbonite as a desk because his hands were barely functional enough to grab Leias ass, much less hold a pencil. Samantha… → Read More
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Google today announced that bloggers on its Blogger publishing platform can now enable a new Google+-powered commenting system for their sites. This means Blogger users can now use Google+ as a commenting platform for their blogs and comments from Google+ will automatically appear on their blogs, too. Google has already enabled this new system on all of its official blogs. This new commenting… → Read More